Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Cowardice and Hypocrisy at a University
Aired: 2025-03-13
Duration: 04:47


=== Campus Cowardice And Free Speech (04:22) ===

[00:00:00]  American higher education really is a hive of hypocrisy and cowardice.
[00:00:05]  I've been invited by a student group to give a talk at Colorado Mesa University.
[00:00:10]  This has caused a big fuss on campus and a performance by the university president, John Marshall, that is as comical as it is contemptible.
[00:00:22]  He started out with an 800-word message to the entire campus in which he said, my views are...
[00:00:28]  And that my speaking engagement could be the most difficult and important test Colorado Mesa University has faced when it comes to free speech.
[00:00:40]  However, his campus is a place where all ideas can be expressed.
[00:00:45]  Bad ideas can be peacefully challenged and, in the end, defeated.
[00:00:51]  Our task is to empower you to pursue truth, he added.
[00:00:56]  And the way to do that is to allow space for all opinions across the political and ideological spectrum.
[00:01:03]  Sounds like a fine sentiment.
[00:01:05]  President Marshall even called free speech sacred.
[00:01:09]  He told students it's the opportunity of your life to carefully deconstruct his, meaning my, dehumanizing ideas.
[00:01:19]  Too bad he's already decided they're dehumanizing, but I could forgive him for that if he really wants students to pursue truth by coming to my talk and grappling with unfamiliar ideas.
[00:01:32]  He said he would show up to peacefully and respectfully demonstrate.
[00:01:37]  I was glad to know he wouldn't be rioting.
[00:01:40]  But he said he wouldn't attend my talk.
[00:01:43]  That's odd.
[00:01:45]  He says it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance for students to challenge and defeat bad ideas, but all he's going to do is stand outside.
[00:01:53]  I wrote to suggest that he do the challenging and defeating.
[00:01:58]  I invite you to take the stage after my talk and explain why I am wrong.
[00:02:03]  I perhaps tactlessly reminded him that one of the defining values he claims for his campus is courage.
[00:02:11]  This university president wasn't man enough to reply.
[00:02:15]  Instead, I heard back from the student president who began her letter with Dear Jared.
[00:02:21]  She explained that President Marshall wouldn't answer me because he has already accepted a better invitation to attend a better event focused on love, dignity, and true courage.
[00:02:35]  She has scheduled this love fest for the same time as my talk, so no one can attend both.
[00:02:42]  And that's how the university will defeat my ignorant, hateful ideas.
[00:02:47]  She ended with love and peace.
[00:02:50]  If this event were right after my speech, students could listen to me first, but it's time to make sure students won't hear what I say.
[00:03:00]  I guess President Marshall doesn't want students to pursue truth by challenging and defeating bad ideas after all.
[00:03:08]  He'll be the star of a self-styled counter-narrative deliberately set up to keep students even from hearing those ideas, to keep them ignorant.
[00:03:19]  His board of trustees should think seriously about his fitness for the job.
[00:03:24]  Just yesterday, the student president sent out a campus-wide message.
[00:03:29]  Jared Taylor runs and founded the American Renaissance Conference alongside neo-Nazis, racists, and Klansmen.
[00:03:39]  My presence makes many of us, if not all of us, feel unsafe, unheard, and unwelcome.
[00:03:46]  Golly, the whole campus is cowering.
[00:03:50]  She invites students to attend the multiple events that will apparently be required to counteract my terrifying presence.
[00:03:58]  Will there be milk and cookies?
[00:04:00]  Stuffed animals to comfort traumatized students?
[00:04:04]  I'm sure all the campus toadies will have a wonderful time raging against ideas of which they are deliberately ignorant and congratulating each other on their true courage.

=== New Maverick Mascot (00:40) ===

[00:04:18]  Nothing could be more conformist and submissive.
[00:04:22]  The Colorado Mesa University mascot is the Maverick.
[00:04:27]  What's a maverick?
[00:04:29]  An unorthodox or independent-minded person.
[00:04:33]  Synonyms are non-conformist, rebel, dissenter, and a maverick is the opposite of a conformist.
[00:04:40]  I don't know what the campus was like before President Marshall, but I propose a new mascot.